"I'd say that reflects that Luke is either unaware or doesn't understand the National Broadband Network's rollout," she said.

"It is as part of that that we've created the opportunity, have taken the commonsense approach to say, 'we're rolling out infrastructure and there's capacity for the mobile phone providers to come on board and partner with that', and indeed both Telstra and Optus have done so.

"We are already out there, on the ground, providing those opportunities."